Tag Archives: Repentance

Changing Minds

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To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here In Vienna, Austria, in the middle of the 19th century, going to a hospital to have a baby could be likened to a roll of the dice. Sometimes, new mothers did not return home. The mortality figures were staggering. Almost 20% of the expectant moms in Vienna General Hospital’s First Obstetrical Clinic succumbed to… Read more »

When Pigs Fly

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To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here A few years ago, two first class passengers on a US Airways flight from Philadelphia to Seattle made arrangements to travel with a pet. Their “therapeutic companion animal” turned out to be a full-grown pig. Others passengers described the 300-pound hog as “enormous, brown, angry, and honking.”  At first he was… Read more »